CALIFORNIA, USA — If you looked up toward the sky in California around 9 p.m., it wasn't a fireball. It wasn't a plane. And ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

Japan's Astroscale , a company specialised in removing orbital junk, has agreed with Bengaluru-based space companies ...

Space debris travels at high speeds, about 17,500 mph. A 1-centimeter object traveling at that speed has an impact energy equivalent to that of a small explosive such as a hand grenade.

The Tokyo-based startup developing space debris removal technologies added that it plans to start removing "space junk" from orbit by the end of March 2028. "We want to realize a service to refuel ...

"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites over the next 100 years." Growing concentrations of greenhouse gases are ...